*breaking news* MMR-AUTISM doc exonerated

Professor Walker-Smith (wakefield's colleague in the LANCET paper) exonerated!, and, speaking directly to the attack on Andy Wakefield, the following relevant conclusions from the decision:

1. The 1998 Lancet paper was an early report of cases seen in consecutive order on the basis of clinical need and nothing whatever to do with the separate Legal Aid Board funded project.

2. The children reported in the 1998 Lancet paper were very ill and warranted serious clinical investigation and the investigations conducted were entirely appropriate.

3. The allegations of fraud propagated by journalist Brian Deer, the Murdoch press and the British Medical Journal (rubberstamped by the GMC) are therefore also unfounded.

The verdict today raises questions for us about whether or not the Lancet should have retracted the paper after the GMC decision, as the reasons for its retraction have now been contradicted by the judgeÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s decision.

"He noted, however, that the ruling does not have any effect on the discredited MMR vaccine-autism link, pointing to Mitting's conclusion that "there is now no respectable body of opinion which supports [Dr. Wakefield's] hypothesis, that MMR vaccine and autism/enterocolitis are causally linked.""

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